If you'd like to point a domain name that you have to some other domain or subdomain, one of the ways to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By creating such a record, the domain address being redirected loses all its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it is redirected to. This way, if you use a web design service by some provider that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain and not only will it be redirected to the site which you have created, but it will also appear in the Internet browser address bar at all times. Some other possible uses of a CNAME record are to forward all of the targeted traffic from different subdomains to their main Internet domain, or to use the webmail service of your hosting provider by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain simply because such a record created for the main domain makes it impossible to use e-mail addresses.

CNAME Records in Cloud Hosting

Setting up a CNAME record using our cloud hosting is really easy. Our in-house built Hepsia CP includes a section committed to the DNS records of your domain names, so you can set up a new CNAME record for any domain or subdomain hosted inside your account in a couple of easy steps. There is also a video tutorial within the same section in which you can see the process first-hand. This feature offers you many possibilities - if you create a company site on our end, as an illustration, the staff can use their emails with the company domain address, not with the address of our mail server. If you want to create a site through a different provider which offers online web design services, you can easily redirect a domain hosted here and use it for the site. Last, but not least, if you have a web-based store and you have a billing system for http://your-domain.com and/or an SSL certificate, you could create a CNAME record for the www subdomain and point it to the main domain address, so all your visitors will be forwarded to a secure URL.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will enable you to set up a CNAME record easily. Whether you want to create a private URL for your emails, to point a domain to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it will not take you more than 3 mouse clicks to set up this kind of record. All DNS records for the domain addresses and subdomains hosted within the semi-dedicated account are going to be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you're there, all you will have to do will be to choose the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video within the Control Panel on how to set up a CNAME record or you can refer to the instructions in the help article, which is available in the DNS records section.